Taking Your Sites to the Next Level with Business Catalyst and jQuery

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Explore fresh techniques for building beautiful, sophisticated websites using Adobe Business Catalyst and the popular jQuery framework. Jason Tinnin of SimpleFlame.com and Kiyuco.com will explore, using real-world examples, just how easily you can integrate jQuery with your sites, crafting unique visitor experiences and impressing your clients. We'll cover a range of built-in modules in Business Catalyst, including the Web Apps framework, and also touch on the platform's powerful API. This is a session for anyone working in a modern web design agency interested in taking their web projects to the next level.

Join Randy Ksar, Motorola Mobility Community Manager for MOTODEV, on best practices to get your app discovered in the marketplace. Randy will cover how to optimize your Android Market listing, utilize social media as a marketing and customer feedback tool, leverage testing to improve your customer ratings, and introduce new marketing opportunities to get your app featured on Motorola Mobility smartphones and tablets.

Join Randy Ksar, Motorola Mobility Community Manager for MOTODEV, on best practices to get your app discovered in the marketplace. Randy will cover how to optimize your Android Market listing, utilize social media as a marketing and customer feedback tool, leverage testing to improve your customer ratings, and introduce new marketing opportunities to get your app featured on Motorola Mobility smartphones and tablets.

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know the web is shifting again! HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript are helping move the web from the desktop onto a multitude of devices and screen sizes. And through the magic of the Phonegap framework, those same technologies are being used to build native applications as well. Join Greg Rewis, product evangelist, as he shows how to use CSS3 Media Queries to adapt the look of traditional web pages to these form factors, and how to implement a more "native" feel to your pages using the jQuery Mobile framework.

See how the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite can help you create rich and engaging content and applications for tablet devices including Android, iPad, and BlackBerry PlayBook. Join Colin Fleming, Adobe digital publishing evangelist, to learn about Digital Publishing Suite Professional and Enterprise Edition features and to get an overview of the workflow that leads from Adobe InDesign to your own custom application. This session is great for designers who are new to digital publishing and want to get a better understanding of how it works, as well as the benefits.

Learn how Adobe will be deploying language resources, or "language packs," to mobile applications in the field. Cloud-based localization will enable sending language updates and fixes to applications within minutes. This will eliminate the cumbersome need to build and test new installers for each localization update, as well as the need to push these through the delivery channels. The new approach allows rapid turnaround and supports frequent product releases and their often small increments, keeping in line with standard agile development practices.

In the war chest of the web developer, there is Photoshop, HTML, JavaScript, and, of course, CSS. While CSS started off with a minor role, it is increasingly taking over. In this session, we'll review the latest and greatest CSS techniques, how we can apply them to projects right now, and what we can expect to have available to us in the future as CSS continues to take over the world!

With the democratization of publishing and design that the Adobe product line has enabled, many find themselves creating content without having a formal design background. In this session, you'll learn the top ten practical tips for achieving consistently beautiful typography. We'll cover topics such as choosing and combining typefaces, the anatomy of type, understanding leading and how it relates to type size and column width, the proper use of white space and break characters, using special glyphs like em and en dashes, quotation marks versus inch marks, how to create visual hierarchy, and much more.

Adobe Illustrator: Secrets to working faster, smarter and more creatively

Learn expert tips and techniques to get the most out of Adobe Illustrator. Reduce the time you spend on mundane tasks and gain more time to focus on the activities that matter: the creative ones. Brenda Sutherland, Illustrator product manager, will show you how to work faster, smarter, and much more smoothly. Once you've tricked out Illustrator and made it the custom vehicle you've always wanted, you'll experience life in the fast lane by shaving valuable time off tasks you perform every day.

Building Tablet Applications Using InDesign and Digital Publishing Suite

Learn how to use Adobe InDesign CS5.5 and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to create and deliver engaging applications on tablet devices. Leave this session with a good understanding of the workflow and technology required to build interactive documents that combine the beauty of print with the engagement of rich media to create an all-new reading experience on the latest touch screen devices.

See how easy it is to work remotely on a tablet device. If you never thought you could create professional quality output away from your desktop, this session could open your eyes. Create and share your designs from a plane? The beach? Check out this session to learn more.

Discover how Hallmark is developing a motion design workflow for content that has multiple uses (print, interactive, web, broadcast, mobile, and so on). We’ll show how to take files that originated for print and then convert them for distribution to the web, mobile applications, Google TV, and broadcast. See how to start with HD source files and follow an "author once, distribute everywhere" model. While focusing on a single file, the session will cover a range of topics from naming conventions to output modules and file creation.

See how the nine brands managed by Starwood Hotels and Resorts, including W Hotels, Westin, Le Meridien, Sheraton, and St. Regis, use Adobe's design tools to redefine digital branding. Join us for an informative session, and be prepared to rethink how you build your brand on the web, mobile devices, and beyond.

Learn how to make your asset pipeline more efficient, reduce your costs, and bring your games to market faster. We'll take you through the full content creation process using living design, animation, and 3D tools.

Join this session to learn how to use analytics and testing data from the Adobe Online Marketing Suite to make better decisions about creative design. You'll hear from Adobe's marketing experts, who will share industry insights on what works and what doesn't when it comes to creative campaigns for digital content. This session will highlight use cases from the Online Marketing Suite, including Adobe SiteCatalyst and Adobe Test&Target.

Learn how to automatically generate dynamic content based on your online audience. Adobe Online Marketing Suite, powered by Omniture, combined with Adobe Creative Suite enables dynamic content for marketing. Learn how to make a banner that swaps content automatically based on audience, delivering the right experience to the right person. This session uses enterprise-level products like Adobe SiteCatalyst and Adobe Test&Target with Creative Suite products like Adobe Flash. Learning how to use these products will help you build business strategy and deliver solutions for more effective online businesses.

Explore some of the lesser known yet powerful features of Adobe Fireworks, an essential design tool that operates with both vectors and bitmaps and can span the design process from wireframe to comp. If you are already comfortable with Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, and Flash Catalyst, see how Fireworks can become an integral part of your design/develop workflow.

Come learn about the new Adobe SocialAnalytics product, how it works, and how it can be used to optimize your company's brand and digital content. SocialAnalytics is part of the Adobe Online Marketing Suite and is geared for enterprise application.

Learn how Adobe OnLocation, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe Audition — all included in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium — can help you shoot and produce a successful interview. Interviews are a very efficient way of creating content — inexpensive to produce, effective for gathering and presenting information, and easy to edit.

Accessibility laws for digital content are changing rapidly. Just as businesses are required by law to install and maintain accessible facilities, soon the requirement for accessible digital content will also be law. As the ubiquitous PDF file format becomes an accepted primary format for digital content, making PDFs (especially PDF forms) accessible to users of assistive technology becomes that much more important. This session demonstrates how to apply the guidelines of WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 to your PDF forms to improve accessibility and user experience. These best practices can also be applied to Flash and HTML5 forms as well.

Creating content for both web and mobile devices that provides an engaging experience both online and offline can be a challenge. In this session you'll learn how to create native mobile applications based on Adobe's Web Experience Management (WEM) Solution's Content Sync Framework allowing you to quickly deploy existing content to your mobile clients.

Learn how to create usable data-centric applications that show just the right amount at the right time: useful, but not overwhelming. With Adobe LiveCycle Data Services, if you try to force too much data into a display, or don't provide enough data at a time, your tool likely won't be of much practical use. The principle at work here is information density, and it's a key concept all Flex developers who deal in large data sets should (and can) master.

Learn essential techniques for imitating natural painting effects like impasto oils, translucent watercolors, and textured pastels with the new Mixer Brush in Photoshop CS5. Jack Davis, award-winning artist, author, and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, will use real-world projects to show how quickly and easily you can enhance and interpret your images and designs — from subtle tweaks to complete expressive transformations. You'll walk away with new painting solutions that are sure to change what you thought was possible in Photoshop and in your own work.

Learn how to get PDF files to behave the way you and your readers want on the web. We'll share best practices for helping to ensure that PDF files are easy to read, navigate, and access, as well as for making PDF files as streamlined as possible without losing quality.

Join this one-hour discussion consisting of a panel of customer experts who are creative visionaries. Find out what they have to say about creating on tablet devices and being able to work in new ways.

Discover how to break free from your desktop and create anywhere. Creative professionals are working in new ways with their Adobe desktop products by starting with mobile applications, and then bringing their work into the powerhouse products they already love like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and more. Come see for yourself the advantages of going mobile.

For Creative Professionals: Adobe Mobile Apps and Why You Should Use Them

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Learn about the latest developments in customer experience management (CEM), the next step for organizations large and small trying to build better relationships with their customers, while better reinforcing their brands and improving margins. This session will cover what CEM is, how your agency, studio, or consultancy fits into the discussion, and how you can use Adobe tools and technologies to help your customers create better relationships with their customers. We'll also take a look at some of the innovative solutions shops have already gotten to work for them.

Take a deep dive into using CSS3 media queries to create websites that look good and work well on desktops, tablets, and mobile phones regardless of screen size. In this session, bestselling author and trainer David Powers explores how to optimize style rules for each type of device depending on its features, such as width, height, aspect ratio, and orientation. You'll also learn how to cope with older browsers that don't support media queries and how to avoid wasting mobile users' valuable data allowance by forcing them to download assets intended only for larger screen sizes.

Take a critical look at the game interface, the part that most players fail to acknowledge but that provides information to facilitate game flow and can add to the overall immersive gaming experience. This session will delve into several topics, such as why graphical interfaces are key in game design, how to avoid overloading your players with too much information or visual clutter, and best design practices and tips.

Learn how you can simplify the creation of immersive experiences that are presented consistently across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions with Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5. Target the latest mobile platforms including Android, BlackBerry, and iOS. Efficiently create content that targets multiple devices, copy and paste layers, and easily adapt artwork for various sizes. Plus use more than 20 new code snippets, including ones optimized for mobile and application development.

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Discover how to create the highest quality image possible by harnessing the power within the Develop module in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Master the tools needed to enhance, refine, and add creative effects to your images using both global and local nondestructive image adjustments, including white balance, tone curves, vibrance, clarity, sharpening, and color enhancements. Also learn how to create presets to quickly apply these effects to multiple images and prepare your images for final delivery with speed and efficiency.

Learn how the artists at Sesame Workshop create the digital assets for their world-famous Sesame Street Muppets using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop as their primary tools. In this inspiring session, you'll get an inside view into how these amazing character artists bring the magic that is Sesame Street to life through illustration and photography. You'll also gain an understanding of how Sesame Workshop’s outreach to children around the world helps them learn and grow.

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Get the scoop on Adobe Edge, a new motion and interaction design tool for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Adobe Fellow Mark Anders will demonstrate how to build beautiful, interactive HTML that incorporates rich design and motion. He'll also show you the standards-based code that Edge generates and how to enhance it. Get an edge on expanding your expertise as a next-generation designer for the web.

From Pixar to Ramayana: The Art of Graphic Storytelling with Sanjay Patel

See how illustrator and animator Sanjay Patel uses images to craft compelling stories. From over 14 years of work at Pixar to his visually rich illustrations of the Hindu mythology of Ramayana, Patel will share his artistic methods, including how he goes from paper, pen, and pencil to highly detailed work in Adobe Illustrator.

Learn how you can increase your web design business through building, marketing, selling, and supporting websites with Business Catalyst, the all-in-one web hosting platform from Adobe. Brent Weaver of HotPress Web and BC Gurus has used Business Catalyst as a core offering to more than double revenues. He will explore three key strategies you can use to attract a constant pipeline of new clients and generate recurring profits. This is a session for anyone who runs or works in a modern web design agency, with clients running small to medium businesses.

Learn how to extend compositions created in Adobe Edge and integrate them into existing web pages. Josh Hatwich, Adobe senior computer scientist, will walk you through its JavaScript runtime and show you how to integrate projects made with Edge in real-world scenarios, such as deploying to a content management system, integrating with dynamic data, or extending compositions by adding interactivity.

Explore fresh techniques for building beautiful, sophisticated websites using Adobe Business Catalyst and the popular jQuery framework. Jason Tinnin of SimpleFlame.com and Kiyuco.com will explore, using real-world examples, just how easily you can integrate jQuery with your sites, crafting unique visitor experiences and impressing your clients. We'll cover a range of built-in modules in Business Catalyst, including the Web Apps framework, and also touch on the platform's powerful API. This is a session for anyone working in a modern web design agency interested in taking their web projects to the next level.

Hear how USC School of Cinematic Arts animation instructors helped a world-famous conductor launch a new form of classical music performance. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger, along with two students from their team, will share how they conceived and built animations to enhance the inaugural concert at the New World Theater in Miami. See their work, experience the music of Pictures at an Exhibition, and learn some technical tricks for melding music and imagination.

Learn how you can easily build and deploy multiscreen websites using Adobe's new, all-in-one hosting platform, Business Catalyst v3. Join Principal Scientist Jorge Taylor for an exclusive, in-depth walkthrough of Business Catalyst v3's multiscreen functionality and dynamic templating system, giving you an added level of control over the look and feel of your sites across a wide range of devices.

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Get the first official sneak peek at Adobe's brand-new, all-in-one hosting platform, Business Catalyst v3. Join Product Director Bogdan Ripa for a step-by-step walkthrough of the fresh new user interface designed for small business clients and the advance

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Hear a discussion of how immediate and direct contact with an in-house team leads to a greater understanding of company culture and values reflected within the framework of a company's digital designs. A medium-size international enterprise typically outsources to smaller agencies that specialize in Internet marketing, design, and development. By bringing that type of talent in house, an enterprise can communicate its marketing strategies and messages with greater speed to market and more collective creative control.

Explore all that Adobe Creative Suite has to offer. This session will lead you through all the powerful, but little-known features of Creative Suite including timesaving options in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Adobe Bridge (and Mini Bridge); convenient content sharing among components; powerful document sharing for review; and much more.

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Dive into a session that tackles the challenges of producing HD video for the web. Learn the best creation and encoding techniques for video and audio distribution for the web using the tools found in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium.

Find out how to leverage Adobe After Effects to create engaging and rich online advertising campaigns. Learn how PointRoll combines the power of After Effects with Adobe Flash Professional to create compelling and highly interactive rich media that's ready for the multiscreen environment. In this session, you'll also find out how to optimize your video for web deployment, establish best practices, embed metadata/cue point markers for integration with Flash, and use tracking data from mocha for After Effects CS5.5 (included with After Effects) to enable dynamic video.

With the democratization of publishing and design that the Adobe product line has enabled, many find themselves creating content without having a formal design background. In this session, you'll learn the top ten practical tips for achieving consistently beautiful typography. We'll cover topics such as choosing and combining typefaces, the anatomy of type, understanding leading and how it relates to type size and column width, the proper use of white space and break characters, using special glyphs like em and en dashes, quotation marks versus inch marks, how to create visual hierarchy, and much more.

Learn the best skills and techniques for editing DSLR video using Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium. Thanks to their exceptional image quality, their low-light capabilities, and the ability to shoot using standard 35mm DSLR lenses that give your footage the look of expensive film-based cameras, HDSLR cameras are rapidly finding their way into video production at all levels.

Learn the best techniques to edit, restore, and master audio with Adobe Audition CS5.5, and then import audio into other Adobe software such as Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe Premiere Pro. Whether you’re a web pro, a video pro, or just want to expand your skills, you’ll learn how to get professional-quality audio while minimizing the time spent engineering audio files.

Learn how you can use new features in Adobe InDesign CS5.5 to more efficiently create PDF documents that people with disabilities can use. See how the new Articles panel can help you ensure content flows in the expected order. Discover how you can more easily add, edit, and view alt text attributes that are associated with an image or object. Be confident knowing accessible tables and lists are automatically generated by InDesign CS5.5. Add the finishing touches with Adobe Acrobat X Pro, and never forget a step by using guided Actions that streamline the accessibility verification and checking process.

Hear how USC School of Cinematic Arts animation instructors helped a world-famous conductor launch a new form of classical music performance. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger, along with two students from their team, will share how they conceived and built animations to enhance the inaugural concert at the New World Theater in Miami. See their work, experience the music of Pictures at an Exhibition, and learn some technical tricks for melding music and imagination.

Hear from Peter Ryce and Alistair Lee, Adobe Connect evangelists, about how you can modify an existing Flex application, or create a new one, to offer rich collaboration features when used in an Adobe Connect meeting room. They will demonstrate how the free Adobe Connect Collaboration SDK lets Flex developers create views based on role, synchronize data within meetings, and communicate with other objects within the Adobe Connect meeting environment.

Join multiscreen maven Dylan DePass to learn how to maximize code reuse across multiple screens. How do you build a single code base that can be utilized across multiple device experiences? Attend this session to learn how to apply the secret sauce within Adobe AIR and build apps that behave as if they were native. Transform your idea into reality across multiple screens with minimal effort.

Learn how to use Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5 to create rich, engaging prototypes and application interfaces. This session will introduce you to features in Flash Catalyst CS5.5 that enable your team to build compelling, Flex-based projects. It will cover the concepts and workflow involved in using Flash Catalyst and show you how to use Flash Catalyst to enhance static designs created in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop and easily integrate with Adobe Flash Builder. Even if you've used Flash Catalyst before, you'll want to attend this session to discover the many new features offered in the latest version.

In the war chest of the web developer, there is Photoshop, HTML, JavaScript, and, of course, CSS. While CSS started off with a minor role, it is increasingly taking over. In this session, we'll review the latest and greatest CSS techniques, how we can apply them to projects right now, and what we can expect to have available to us in the future as CSS continues to take over the world!

Join multiscreen maven Dylan DePass to learn how to maximize code reuse across multiple screens. How do you build a single code base that can be utilized across multiple device experiences? Attend this session to learn how to apply the secret sauce within Adobe AIR and build apps that behave as if they were native. Transform your idea into reality across multiple screens with minimal effort.

Learn how you can simplify the creation of immersive experiences that are presented consistently across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions with Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5. Target the latest mobile platforms including Android, BlackBerry, and iOS. Efficiently create content that targets multiple devices, copy and paste layers, and easily adapt artwork for various sizes. Plus use more than 20 new code snippets, including ones optimized for mobile and application development.